New Releases
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Made in Jamaica
MADE IN JAMAICA is a powerful portrait of the leaders of the Jamaican music movement and how Reggae in particular became a worldwide phenomenon. It is the story of how a small island nation in the Caribbean of only three million people took their human experience and turned it into songs full of...Watch Movie
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Scherezade
Adapting the story-within-a-story framework of ARABIAN NIGHTS to modern times, SHEHERAZADE TELL ME A STORY is a brilliantly honest unveiling of the position of women in Egyptian society today. Hugely controversial in its native Egypt for its risky portrait of female sexual desire and repression,...Watch Movie
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Daratt
In 2006, the government in Chad has granted amnesty to all war criminals. Atim, 16 years old, is given a revolver by his grandfather so that he may kill the man who killed his father. Atim leaves his village for N’djamena, seeking a man he does not know. He quickly locates him: former war...Watch Movie
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The Glass Ceiling
Europe's racial make-up is quickly changing. French-Algerian filmmaker Yamina Benguigui is hoping to start a conversation about affirmative action, a policy that does not exist in France today. Benguigui's GLASS CEILING presents a series of sometimes very emotional first-hand...Watch Movie
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Frantz Fanon: His Life, His Struggle, His Work
Frantz Fanon, a psychiatrist originally from Martinique, became a spokesman for the Algerian revolution against French colonialism. Embittered by his experience with racism in the French Army, he gravitated to radical politics, Sartrean existentialism and the philosophy of...Watch Movie
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The Tracker
The year is 1922. The Tracker has the job of pursuing the Fugitive, an aborigine who is suspected of murdering a white woman, as he leads three mounted policemen: the Fanatic, the Follower and also the Veteran across the outback. The Tracker, a mysterious and enigmatic figure whose true character...Watch Movie
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Goodbye Momo
Obdulio is an eleven-year-old Afro-Uruguayan boy who lives with his grandmother and sells newspapers for a living, though he cannot read or write. Obdulio is not interested in going to school until he finds out that the night watchman of the newspaper's office is a charismatic magical "Maestro"...Watch Movie
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Denying Brazil
A documentary film about the taboos, stereotypes, and struggles of Black actors in Brazilian television "soaps." Based on his own memories and on a sturdy body of research evidence, the director analyzes race relations in Brazilian soap operas, calling attention to their likely influence on Black...Watch Movie
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The Desert Ark
Amin and Myriam are secretly in love. Their families are rivals and when their relationship is discovered, conflict is inevitable. In the quiet atmosphere of the palm groves, the two communities have long nurtured the seeds of discord and hatred. The persecution is the first signal of inevitable...Watch Movie
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Fallen Angels Paradise
A homeless man dies of an overdose in a popular Cairo neighborhood. He was once an ideal husband and represented security for his family. Then one day, everything changed. Upon his death his friends from the underworld drag the corpse around for a whole night of madness,...Watch Movie
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Ava and Gabriel
AVA AND GABRIEL takes place on the island of Curaçao in the late Forties. Upon request of Father Fidelius, parish priest of St. Anna's, the Surinam painter Gabriel Goedbloed arrives from Holland to paint a mural of the Virgin Mary in St. Anna's Church. The drama unfolds when the clergy and locals...Watch Movie
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Congo
This true, shocking, astonishing story of what the Belgians did in the Congo was forgotten for over fifty years. CONGO describes Leopold II, King of the Belgium's private colony of the Congo between 1885 and 1908 as a gulag labor camp of shocking brutality. Leopold posed as the protector of...Watch Movie
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Candombe
More than two hundred years ago, there was an influx into Uruguay of slaves from Africa whom, after being freed, continued to make up the poorest and most marginalized strata in society. Fernado Nunez, a black man, a musician and a maker of drums, sees himself as the heir to "Candombe", an...Watch Movie
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Rotating Square
Sami and his wife Sarah are packing to move to the USA where they intend to open a restaurant. Rania, Sarah's sister, goes to their house to take them to the airport, but some unexpected and unforeseeable events take place in the apartment: games of seduction, murder and dead bodies to be...Watch Movie
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100% Arabica
In a housing project located on the outskirts of Paris renamed "100% Arabica" by its inhabitants, African immigrants live side by side. The residents are united by their struggle for recognition in a society where immigrants are often regarded as second class citizens. In a world of exiles,...Watch Movie
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Boma-Tervuren
BOMA-TERVUREN is the extraordinary and tragic saga of two-hundred and sixty-seven Congolese, brought to Brussels for the 1897 World's Fair. After some four months of travel towards Belgium, they are exhibited before a million visitors. Subjected to the crushing gaze of the "Whites" and the cold...Watch Movie
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Maria Bethânia: Music is Perfume
In his captivating film, Georges Gachot invites us to enter the universe of Maria Bethania, the famous Brazilian singer. Narrated by Bethania herself, the film not only gives us an insight into the intimate sphere of Maria Bethania's creative process, but focuses on the...Watch Movie
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Amílcar Cabral
Amílcar Cabral was the leader of the Liberation Movement of Cape Verde and Guinea Bissau and the founder of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIGC). He was born in Guinea in 1924 and assassinated in Conakry in 1973. Regarded as a true icon of African...Watch Movie
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The Pain of Others
THE PAIN OF OTHERS is a found footage documentary about Morgellons, a mysterious illness whose sufferers say they have parasites under the skin, long colored fibers emerging from lesions, and a host of other bizarre symptoms which could be borrowed from a horror film. Tens of...Watch Movie
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Henson's Place
Take a peek behind the curtain with HENSON'S PLACE, the original documentary about Jim Henson, the creative visionary that brought us the enchantment of "THE MUPPET SHOW," THE DARK CRYSTAL and more! From honing his skills as a puppeteer in college to creating some of the world's most beloved...Watch Movie
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Ripples
Jim Henson's live-action short RIPPLES, created in 1967 for a competition at Montreal's Expo '67, is one of several projects from that period exploring how ideas are formed and the workings of the mind. Using a variety of images rapidly cut together, the film visualizes the mind's eye of an...Watch Movie
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Cat and Mouse
CAT AND MOUSE is Jim Henson's second and more ambitious interpretation of a composition from jazz drummer Chico Hamilton whom Jim met and collaborated with in 1961. This short film, imbued with sly humor, portrays a brief narrative of the dance performed when predator meets prey. Working in his...Watch Movie
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Alexander the Grape
ALEXANDER THE GRAPE, an unfinished cut-paper animated short from Jim Henson from 1965, relates the fable of a young grape with big ambitions who learns that it is better to accept yourself than to try to be something you are not. The short was reconstructed from film and audio...Watch Movie
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Shearing Animation
SHEARING ANIMATION is one of two animated interpretations by Jim Henson of a musical composition from jazz drummer Chico Hamilton whom Jim met and collaborated with in 1961. New to animation, Jim experimented with moving cut paper and drawing and painting under the camera in...Watch Movie
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Drums West
DRUMS WEST is a cut-paper animation from Jim Henson demonstrating his masterful use of abstract geometrics to expressively and precisely represent an exhilarating drum solo by jazz great Chico Hamilton. This short was created in Jim's home studio in Bethesda, MD around 1961 and is one of several...Watch Movie
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Wheels That Go
A short live-action film made by Jim Henson in 1967 for a competition at Montreal's Expo '67, WHEELS THAT GO explores how children experience the world, making sense of the things they see. Underscored by an electronic track by Raymond Scott, a little boy watches wheeled vehicles on the street...Watch Movie
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Time Piece
Very simply, TIME PIECE is the story of Everyman, frustrated by the typical tasks of a typical day. In Jim Henson's Academy Award®-nominated short, the narrative is presented without dialogue. The man's experiences, actual or conceptual, are visualized through stream-of-consciousness editing,...Watch Movie
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Run, Run
RUN, RUN, a polished live-action effort shot by Jim Henson and Frank Oz in Greenwich, CT in October 1965, is a visualization of the joys of childhood and the wonder of nature. In the short, Jim's daughters run freely through woods saturated by the colors of autumn into the warm embrace of their...Watch Movie
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The Cube
Exploring other approaches to representing human perception, Jim Henson and colleague Jerry Juhl developed various ideas for experimental live-action projects. In 1966, they conceived of a surrealistic comedy called THE CUBE which featured a man trapped in a white doorless room unable to escape....Watch Movie
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Flowers
Ane lives a quiet unfulfilled life, trapped in a seemingly loveless marriage, until she suddenly starts to receive bouquets of flowers anonymously, once a week. Meanwhile, Tere wants nothing more than a grandchild, but her only son Beñat and his wife Lourdes have other plans. A sudden, tragic...Watch Movie
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Sami Blood
Elle Marja, 14, is a reindeer-herding Sami girl. Exposed to the racism of the 1930's and race biology examinations at her boarding school she starts dreaming of another life. To achieve this other life she has to become someone else and break all ties with her family and culture.Watch Movie
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Boy 23
Investigating a period that Brazil is now trying to forget, this documentary reveals that, going much beyond theoretical support, Brazil was once the stage for eugenic experiments that scarred their victims forever. This documentary explores how a racially mixed nation absorbed eugenic ideas to...Watch Movie
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Flamenco, Flamenco
Directed by legendary Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura, FLAMENCO, FLAMENCO is an evolutionary musical journey through the light, song and dance of a dynamic and alive art form. Beautifully photographed by famed Academy Award-winning cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, and...Watch Movie
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Christmas, Again
For a fifth consecutive December, a heartbroken Noel returns to New York City to work the night shift at a sidewalk Christmas tree lot. Devoid of any holiday spirit, he struggles to stay awake during the long, chilly nights in his trailer, while the daytime traffic keeps him...Watch Movie
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Diamond Tongues
Edith Welland dreams of being a successful actress but just can't seem to make things happen. Things get worse when the ex-boyfriend she broke up with to focus on her career takes up acting on a whim and immediately books a leading role. When Edith can't figure out what she's doing wrong, she...Watch Movie
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Homemakers
Part-time punk singer Irene McCabey moonlights as full-time harbinger of chaos (and her life in Austin is crumbling as a result). When her ex-girlfriend moves to kick her out of their band, Irene receives big news: an estranged grandfather has bequeathed to her a dilapidated house across the...Watch Movie
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Almost There
For many, Peter Anton's house embodies an end-of-life nightmare: the utility companies long ago shut off the heat and electricity, the floorboards are rotting and the detritus of a chaotic life is precariously stacked to the ceiling. But for the filmmakers Dan Rybicky and Aaron Wickenden, Anton's...Watch Movie
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We Go Way Back
Lynn Shelton's debut feature draws on her past as a stage actress but WE GO WAY BACK is no autobiographical drama. Kate (Amber Hubert) is a struggling actress who has given up her happiness and her sense of self for her career. That is until she finds a stash of letters written when she was a...Watch Movie
